FLIPPIN (AP) — The mayor of Flippin says he won’t quit his post after accidentally firing a rifle and breaking a City Hall office window, even if people in the northern Arkansas town want him to step down.

J.J. Hudson rejected a City Council member’s call to resign. Councilwoman Stacie Hopper said she heard from many residents who were concerned about the incident, the Baxter Bulletin reported Thursday.

“I’m doing what the citizens wanted me to do,” Hopper said at Tuesday’s council meeting, where she requested Hudson’s resignation.

Hudson fired the gun Sept. 13 inside Police Chief Dusty Smith’s second-floor office. A police report said Hudson was attempting to unload the rifle when the ammunition jammed and the gun accidentally fired, breaking the window.

When asking Hudson to step down, Hopper referred to the mayor’s arrests in two previous incidents while in office and said it made the community of 1,355 residents “a laughingstock.”

“I respectfully request you resign over what happened, and what has happened before,” Hopper said at the council meeting. “There’s no reason to be shooting a gun in City Hall. Someone could have been hurt.”

The Bulletin reported that Hudson pleaded guilty in January in Marion County District Court to driving while intoxicated in connection with an accident last Nov. 24.

He was arrested in October 2011 on charges of battery and public intoxication outside an apartment in Flippin. He eventually pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, with the original charges dropped, according to the newspaper.